THE ASSASSINATION GAVE AUSTRIA-HUNGRY JUSTIFICATION FOR PUTTING AN END TO SLAVIC NATIONLASIM AND POST PONED DECLARTIONS OF WAR UNTIL GERMANYS KAISER AGREED TO AUSTRO-HUNGRO TERMS.
THIS EVENT LEAD TO WAR BECAUSE OF THE MANY TREATIES PUT TOGETHER PRE WAR SO ONCE ONE COUNTRY STARTED FIGHTING THE WHOLE WORLD HAD TO GET INVOLVED.
HOWEVER THIS ASSASSINATION WAS NOT RANDOM IT WAS A CACULATED EVENT AND PUT TOGETHER BY SLAVIC NATIONLISTS WHO WERE UNHAPPY WITH THEIR RULING CLASS
AUSTRIA-HUNGRY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA SPARKING GERMANY TO DECLARE WAR ON RUSSIA LEADING RUSSIAS ALLIES TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY.
BEFORE THE WAR STARTED MANY COUNTRIES PRODUCED POSTERS LIKE THIS ONE TO RALLY THE CIVIALLIAN POPULATION AGAISNT THE OPPOSING FORCES. MANY POSTERS LIKE THIS ONE TARGETED CITIZENS TO ACTUALLY ENLIST AND FIGHT.
THE BATTLE OF TANNENBERG SAW 50,000 RUSSIAN DEATHS AND 92,000 RUSSIAN POWS. THIS BATTLE ENDED UP BEING THE MOST DECESIVE AND THE BIGGEST TRIUMPH FOR THE GERMANS AGAINST THE RUSSIANS.
THIS BATTTLE SAW THE ALL OUT DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AND ENDED UP LAYING THE FIRST SEEDS OF DISCONTENT IN RUSSIA. THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE STARTED TO DISTRUST THE RUSSIAN ROYALTIY.
THE FIRST MAJOR SEA BATTLE OF THE WAR. FOUGHT BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND THE GERMAN NAVIES. THE BRITISH BEAT THE GERMAN FORCES SINKING 3 OF THEIR CRUISERS AND DAMAGING ANOTHER 3
AMERICA INTERFERS WITH RUSSIA REVOLUTION. WITH HELP FROM BRITISH FORCES THEY EVACUTADED VLADIVOSTOK AND ARCHANGEL. BOTH COUNTRIES FAVORED THE WHITE FORCES BECAUSE OF THEIR FEAR AND MISUNDERSTANDING OF LENIN AND HIS RED FORCES. WHEN THE OPERATIONS WERE OVER 174 AMERICANS WERE KILLED OR INJURED
THE FIRST BATTLE OF MARNE BEGINS. THIS BATTLE WILL END UP BEING ONE OF THE MOST DECESIVE BATTLES OF THE WAR. GERMANY PUSHING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO PARIS BEGINS TO BECOME COCKY AND THE FRONT LINE GENERALS BEGIN TO DISOBEY ORDERS GIVING THE NEW FRENCH 6TH ARMY A PERFECT OPPERTUNTIY TO FLANK THEM AND BEAT BACK GERMAM FORCES
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE WAS FIRST SUGGESTED BY POPE BENEDICT. IT HAD BEGUN WHEN GERMAN TROOPS STARTED SINGING CHRISTMAS CAROLS AND EMARGED FROM THEIR TRENCHES SAYING "MERRY CHRISTMAS" TO THE ALLIE FORCES. THE BRITISH CAUTIONISLY MOVED OUT OF THEIR TRENCHES AND MET WITH THE GERMANS TO TRADE CIGARETTES AND PLUM PUDDING. ON SOME FRONTS EVEN SOCCER GAMES BROKE OUT. HOWEVER OUT OF ALL THIS THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE WAS DENOUCED BY COUNTRY LEADERS
GERMANS STATED THAT ANY SHIP APPORACHING OR NEAR BRITISH SEAS WILL BE SUNK. THIS WILL LEAD TO THE SINKING OF THE LUSTIANA. THIS ACT WOULD THEN LEAD THE USA INTO WAR AGAISNT GERMANY AND ITS ALLIES
THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES SAW THE FIRST REAL CHEMICAL WARFARE EVER. THE BATTLE BEGUN WITH USUAL SHELLING BY THE GERMANS BUT INSTEAD OF CHARGING THE ALLIED LINES THEY LAUNCHED CHLORINE GAS THAT THEN WAS PUSHED INTO 2 FRENCH AND ALGERIAN BATTALIONS COMPLETELY WIPING THEM OUT
WITH GERMANIES POLICIY OF UNRESTRICTED WARFARE U-BOATS WERE INSTRUCTED TO HIT ANY SHIP MOVING IN TO BRITISH SEAS. DESPITE THIS KNOWLEDGE THE UNITED STATES LET THE LUSITANIA SET SAIL. THE LUSITANIA WAS HOWEVER A PASSANGER SHIP (ONLY RECENTLY WAS IT DISCOVERED THAT IT WASNT JUST A PASSANGER SHIP) NEVERTHELESS A GERMAN U-BOAT FIRED ITS TORPODEOS NOT KNOWING THAT IT WOULD KILL A 120 US CITIZENS AND FINALLY BRING AMERICA INTO THE WAR
THE US ENTERS WW1 AFTER MUCH PRESSURE FROM AMERICAN POPULATION. THIS EAGER NATURE TO FIGHT WAS FUELED BY PROPGANDA AND MOVIES GLAMARIZING THE FIGHT AND THEN THE DEEP SEEDED HATRED AND DISTURST AFTER THE MEXICO INTERCETIPON AND THE SINKING OF LUSTIANA
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA WAS A BRITISH MILITARY OPRETAVIE THAT SERVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND FOUGHT WITH FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. HE WAS ACCOMPAINED BY ABU AND NASIR BOTH HIS LOYALIST AND SMARTEST WARRIORS. THE TAKING OF AQUABA ENDED UP BEING ONE OF THE BIGGEST TURNING POINTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST CAMPIGN. IT CONSISTED OF 500 ALLIED TROOPS AND THESE TROOPS TOOK 300 OTTOMAN LIVES AND 300 PRISONERS WITH THE HELP OF THE ROYAL NAVY
FUN FACT: IN LAWRENCES FIRST ENGAGMENT HE SHOT HIS CAMEL IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
THIS PLAN WOULD BE PRAISED BY THE PEOPLE BUT UNACCEPTED BY THE POLITICAL LEADERS. THIS PLAN WAS BASED MORE ON FORGIVNESS THEN REVENGE WHICH WAS WANTED BY THE OTHER WORLD POWERS. WOODROW WILSON WANTED PEACE AND EASY REPARITONS HE INSITIED ON NO MORE TREATIES HOWEVER THE LINES WERE ALREADY DRAWN IN THE SAND AND SADLY THE PLAN THAT MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT PEACE WAS THROWN OUT
THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND WAS A HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL BATTLE. THE BRITISH FORCES ARE SAID TO HAVE WON THE BATTLE BUT SUFFERED MORE CAUSALTIES. THIS BATTLE WAS THE LAST MAJOR NAVAL ENGAGEMENT WHICH RELIED HEAVLY ON BATTLESHIPS.
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME BECAME ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN US HISTORY. 1.5 MILLION MEN DIED BY THE END OF IT. FUN FACT, ONE BRITISH OFFCIER ORDERED A MUSTARD GAS ATTACK ON GERMANIES FRONTLINES BUT DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR WIND SO ONCE THE GAS WAS UNLEASHED IT WAFTED BACK INTO BRITISH LINES. TURNS OUT THAT OFFCIER WAS NOT OF PREVIOUS BACKGROUND
THE LUDENDORFF OFFENSIVE WAS THE LAST GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE GENERAL LUDENDORFF GAMBLED EVERYTHING ON THIS LAST DITCH EFFORT. THIS OFFENSIVE WAS SUPPOSED TO DELIVER HEAVY BLOWS AND HOPEFULLY KNOCK OUT MAJORITY OF ALLIED FORCES BEFORE THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN TROOPS START POURING INTO EUROPE.
AFTER BEING KICKED OUT OF THEIR ROYAL PALACE. THEY WERE SENT INTO DIFFERENTS VILLAGES OR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. FINALLY HOWEVER THEY RESTED IN A SMALL COAL MINING TOWN HOWEVER THIS REST WAS SHORT LIVED. ON THE 16TH OF JULY BOLSHEVIKS BARGED IN THE HOUSE OF THE ROMANOVAS AND ASSASSAINTED THE OLD ROYAL FAMILY
THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET STARTED OFF BEING ONE OF THE ONLY NAVALS TO STAND TOE TO TOE WITH THE BRITISH. HOWEVER AFTER MANY EMBARISSING DEFEATS THEY RETIRED TO KIEL, A SMALL PORT. HERE THE SAILORS THEN RECIVED ORDERS FROM THE HIGH COMMAND TO STAGE A LAST DITCH OFFENSIVE. THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND BELIEVED IT WAS BETTER TO DIE WITH HONOR FIGHTING THEN BE DISGRACED IN LIFE. TO BAD THE SAILORS DID NOT THINK THE SAME THEY BELIEVED IT WAS A SUCIDIE MISSON AND REFUSED TO FOLLOW THROUGH EVEN AFTER 5 TIMES OF BEING CALLED INTO ACTION LATER THAT DAY 1000 GERMAN SOILDRES WERE JAILED BUT THIS MUTINY SPREAD RIOTS AND PROTEST SPROUTED ALL OF THE COUNTRY ALL AGAISNT THE WAR AND THEIR DYING CAUSE
KAISER WILHELMS FALL BEGIN WHEN HIS MILITRAY ADVISORS STARTED GIVING UP THEY BEGAN TO INFORM HIM THAT THE WAR WAS OVER HOWEVER WILHELM DENOUCED THESE NOTATIONS. LATER ON THE PRINCE VON BRAUN HOWEVER ANNOUCENED THE KAISER ABDICATION BEFORE WILHELM EVEN UTTERED SUCH WORDS. BUT UNDER POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PRESSURE HE FINALLY LEFT AND RETIRED TO HOLLAND